Himalayan-Arctic Exchange: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Regional Learning in Community-Based Research Methods and Experiences

喜马拉雅-北极交流：基于社区的研究方法和经验的跨文化和跨地区学习

• 批准号: 1027288
• 负责人: Henry Huntington
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Huntington Consulting
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-04-15 至 2012-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1027288&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Himalayan; Arctic; Exchange; Cross; Cultural

This mini-workshop project, PI Henry Huntington, provides the resources for four Himalayan scholars to join their Inuit, Canadian counterparts in Nunavut to observe, gather data, and discuss the community based research projects currently underway in Clyde River, Baffin Island, Nunavut among the Inuit communities of this region. This project is part of the Arctic Social Sciences Program's faciliatation of international research collaborations on high-latitude/high-altitude cross-cultural perspectives on global climate change.The people of the Himalayas are undergoing rapid climate change comparative to the Arctic. For example, high altitude glaciers are melting causing massive flooding and threatening future sources of water., sacred sites are being destroyed, and changes in local flora and fauna are observed. NSF has funded several community based projects among the Inuit of Clyde River, e.g., the Igliniit project- is a collaboration between geomatics engineers and the Inuit to develop an interactive, mobile, Inuktitut (local language) GPS/field computer/weather station that allows Inuit hunters to record environmental information as they hunt and travel; the Silarlirijiit project - is a collabortion between NSF scientists and local elders to better understand regional wether patterns. By bringing together these two communities, Himalayan and Arctic, for a technological, knowledge, and scientific exchange, the mini-workshop has the potential not only to affect the way in which indigenous communties monitor and understand the changes in their regions but it also has the potential to inform our understanding of traditional knowledge systems about the environment, create new models for working with communities in high-altitude regions, and the ability to increase our understanding of the key social structural elements of how environmental change affects social-cultural processes.This project is quite transformational - it is a first ever exchange of scientific/local knowledge between high latitude and high altidute communities and collaborating scientists on climate change. The scientific merits are quite high, the project will give insights into local culture based knowledge systems; will transfer technology between two very diverse regions - technology developed in collaborations with indigenous communities; and this exchange has the potential for scientists to gain critical insights into social structural resilience that exists regardless of local cultural knowledge.

这个名为亨利·亨廷顿PI的小型研讨会项目为四位喜马拉雅学者提供了资源，让他们与努纳武特的加拿大因纽特人同行一起观察、收集数据，并讨论目前在努纳武特地区巴芬岛克莱德河的因纽特人社区开展的基于社区的研究项目。本项目是北极社会科学项目促进高纬度/高海拔跨文化视角下全球气候变化国际研究合作的一部分。与北极地区相比，喜马拉雅地区的人们正经历着快速的气候变化。例如，高海拔冰川正在融化，造成大规模洪水，威胁到未来的水源。在美国，圣地遭到破坏，当地动植物发生变化。国家科学基金会资助了克莱德河因纽特人的几个社区项目，例如，伊格里尼特项目——这是一个地理信息工程师和因纽特人之间的合作项目，旨在开发一个互动的、可移动的、因纽特语（当地语言）的GPS/野外计算机/气象站，使因纽特猎人能够在狩猎和旅行时记录环境信息；Silarlirijiit项目是NSF科学家和当地长老之间的合作，目的是更好地了解地区天气模式。通过将喜马拉雅和北极这两个社区聚集在一起，进行技术、知识和科学交流，小型讲习班不仅有可能影响土著社区监测和了解其地区变化的方式，而且有可能使我们了解关于环境的传统知识体系，为与高海拔地区的社区合作创造新的模式，以及提高我们对环境变化如何影响社会文化进程的关键社会结构要素的理解的能力。这个项目具有很大的变革性——它是高纬度地区和高海拔地区社区之间的第一次科学/地方知识交流，也是合作研究气候变化的科学家之间的第一次交流。该项目具有很高的科学价值，将有助于深入了解基于当地文化的知识体系；将在两个非常不同的区域之间转让技术- -与土著社区合作开发的技术；这种交流有可能让科学家获得对社会结构弹性的关键见解，而这种弹性与当地文化知识无关。